I am a community ecologist, interested in the persistence of species and
communities in heterogeneous, fragmented, and disturbed landscapes. I study
extinction, invasion and community assembly. I use the focus of spatial scale to
understand the processes that determine how communities are structured (see
what I have been up to).

Kendi Davies
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado

The Wog Wog Fragmentation
Experiment

Most of the work in our lab is within the Wog Wog
fragmentation experiment in south eastern Australia
-- a large scale, long term experiment, now in its
28th year. The experiment was established by CSIRO
scientists in 1985. We continue to collaborate with
CSIRO, and our recent work on beetles has been
funded by NSF. We study, in particular, extinction, and
ecosystem function in an experimental context. Wog
Wog also presents an excellent context in which to
experimentally test spatial community theory at
realistic spatial scales.